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SARA SCHATZ is an associate at Jay Binder Casting, where current productions include the revival of The Wiz (summer 09), Grease (national tour), the children in the Broadway, Vegas and touring companies of The Lion King, and the hit Off-Broadway production of The Marvelous Wonderettes. Other Binder projects include The Story of My Life and the upcoming revivals of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memories and Broadway Bound. Regional: Vanities, the Musical (Pasadena Playhouse), Working (Old Globe Theatre), Happy Days (Goodspeed, Papermill), MASK (Pasadena Playhouse), and the world premier of Trip of Love in Osaka, Japan. Before joining Binder Casting, she was the director of the casting department at Richard Frankel Productions where she did additional casting for The Producers (Broadway, Vegas), The Fantasticks (Off-Broadway), Porgy & Bess (West End, Broadway) and Company (Broadway). During her four years at Dave Clemmons Casting, she served as an associate casting director on multiple Broadway shows including Ring of Fire, In My Life, The Boy From Oz, Brooklyn and Dracula. Sara cast the European/Asian tours of West Side Story (directed and choreographed by Joey McKneely) and The King & I (directed by Bobby Garcia), as well as numerous national tours including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita (directed by Hal Prince), Fosse, Crazy for You and Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway: Bare, Bingo, Captain Louie, the NYC premier of Charles Mee's Big Love (Theatre for a New Audience). Numerous NY readings and workshops including Tom Kitt's Feeling Electric (2005 NYMF Festival), Mask (directed by Richard Maltby Jr.), The Me Nobody Knows (directed by Scott Schwartz). Regional: The Old Globe, Papermill Playhouse, Marriott Lincolnshire, Goodspeed Opera House, Pittsburg CLO. She has co-taught master classes at several of the countries finest musical theatre training programs including NYU, Carnegie Mellon, CCM, Boston Conservatory, Elon, Baldwin Wallace, Sam Houston State, Oklahoma City, Point Park and North Carolina School of the Arts. As a performer, Sara starred Off-Broadway in The Donkey Show, and played Maureen on the national tour of Rent. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University.
Bio as of June, 2009.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Theatre Intern Group Panelist - 2006
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2009
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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